Chapter 1586: Kublai Khan is dead, Chabi is no longer popular
"Kublai Khan, Yang Guo is here!"
Yang Guo was originally guarding Jingdong Road. When he learned that Kublai Khan had led an army of 500,000 to invade, he immediately asked Su Mingzhe for orders and asked to personally lead the team to guard the last pass.
Su Mingzhe also saw that Lin'an Song Ting was quite honest and had no intention of coming to collect the fruits of his victory, so he replaced others to guard Jingdong Road and asked Yang Guo to lead all the troops to Jingxing Pass.
"Yang Guo...that junior brother of Su Mingzhe?"
Kublai Khan was naturally no stranger to Yang Guo, the manager of Jingdong Road.
Yang Guo was among the masters of the Southern Song Dynasty who were chasing him outside Xiangyang City.
When he thought that such a powerful pass was blocked by this evil star, Kublai Khan suddenly became anxious:
"If you're too timid, I'll leave the Southern Barbarian behind to you! The rest of you will pass with me!"
"The last general takes command!"
The timid Buhua was a head of ten thousand households whom Kublai Khan and Meng Ge trusted more. After receiving the order, he led his troops to fight back the pursuers.
At this time, moving forward will lead to a narrow escape from death, while rushing backward will definitely lead to a narrow escape from death.
However, the cowardly Buhua, even though he knew that he was going to die, was still unafraid and led his army of ten thousand people to rush towards the pursuers from behind!
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"Why do these Tatars have firearms?"
Yang Guo dodged a stone bullet fired from a stone cannon, and his face instantly turned livid.
General Pi was afraid that he would misunderstand, so he quickly explained:
"Sir, the Tatars have firearms. This type of weapon that shoots stone bullets is called a 'stone cannon'. It weighs about five hundred kilograms. It is placed on a wooden frame and can be pulled by a horse. There is also a kind of 'artillery'
, weighs about 800 kilograms, and what is struck out is like a goddess scattering flowers, with all kinds of iron pieces and sharp weapons, it is more powerful than the squatting tiger cannon..."
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Kublai Khan under the city couldn't help laughing when he saw that the one hundred stone cannons he carried had finally established their power and suppressed the defenders.
This time he went south, he was really wronged to death.
With an army of 500,000 and a hundred stone cannons, ten years ago he would have been the most handsome boy on the grassland.
But this time when we went south, we were overwhelmed by Su Mingzhe and couldn't breathe.
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As Kublai Khan used stone cannons to break through the pass, Jingxing Pass began to be in danger.
Su Mingzhe, who had been paying attention to the battlefield, naturally saw all this.
However, he had no intention of taking action.
Now Kublai Khan is at the end of his strength, and only one last desperate blow is left.
Yang Guo was sitting at a dangerous juncture, waiting for work. If he could not defeat Kublai Khan, it meant that his potential was limited and he was not worthy of more trust.
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"Everyone hide their bodies and wait until the Tatars come up to fight!"
Yang Guo followed Su Mingzhe for several years, and when he was in his twenties, he became the general manager of Jingdong Road, which was regarded as a young success.
Seeing Kublai Khan leading a group of defeated troops who were like lost dogs, forcing himself to avoid his sharp edge, he suddenly became filled with anger.
As the Tatar army climbed up the wall with ladders, the Tatar stone cannons slowly stopped firing.
Yang Guo took the lead and was the first to kill the Tatar warriors who had ascended first.
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"Real gold wishes the prince a safe and happy life!"
He knelt down in front of Su Mingzhe with a gift of real gold and did not dare to move for a long time.
Su Mingzhe looked at the young man and felt a lot for a moment.
These days, every word and deed of Zhenjin at Kublai Khan's place was under his observation.
It can be said that although Zhenjin is young, he has the style of Qin Ganluo.
If you train yourself, you will definitely become a famous minister when you grow up.
"Get up!"
Zhenjin kowtowed twice more before getting up:
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
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"Your Majesty, the young prince has been picked up by Nanmanzi!"
The timid Buhua led the few hundred remaining soldiers and returned to Kublai Khan for exchanges.
"Thanks for your hard work!"
When Kublai Khan learned that his son was safe and sound, he took off his cloak and said solemnly to the generals around him:
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"In today's battle, even if you surrender, I will not blame you! But before I die in battle, I hope that everyone can work together..."
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"Is this death?"
Su Mingzhe led the army and successively eliminated three troops of ten thousand people, and then rushed in front of Kublai Khan.
Kublai Khan opened his big eyes and glared ahead, as if something incredible had happened in front of him.
A surrendered general was kneeling in front of Su Mingzhe, his head almost buried in his crotch:
"Little man Boyan, I respectfully invite King Lu Jin'an!"
Su Mingzhe looked away from Kublai Khan's body and then asked:
"Did you kill Kublai Khan?"
"The villain killed it himself!"
Boyan was originally the youngest head of ten thousand households on the grassland and had a bright future. However, because he was deceived by Kublai Khan, he took his men south and wanted to make achievements.
Now that the achievements have not been made, one's life is at risk.
How could Boyan be so willing!
Kublai Khan was also unlucky. He sent all the loyal Xue troops under his command to attack the city, leaving only Boyan, a head of ten thousand households, by his side.
After a short psychological struggle, Boyan decided to fight for himself.
Just like that, Kublai Khan died at the hands of his own people.
"Back off!"
Su Mingzhe felt that Kublai Khan's death was not worth it.
When Boyan retreated, Su Mingzhe called Zhenjin over:
"Zhenjin, your father is dead. How are you going to deal with his funeral?"
When Zhenjin saw his father's remains, his expression was not sad, and his eyes were very calm:
"My lord, according to the customs of the grassland, you can just bury me in the open!"
When Kublai Khan sent him back to Su Mingzhe, Zhenjin guessed that his father would die in battle.
Since it was an expected thing, although Zhenjin felt sad, he could accept this fact calmly.
As for the ‘clear burial’ he mentioned, it is also called a wild burial.
Just drag the body out into the wild and wait for wild animals and birds of prey to gnaw on it.
A few days later, when relatives return, if they see the body being eaten up, it is believed that the soul of the deceased has returned to the Heaven of Eternal Life and the soul has rested in peace.
If the body is still there or has not been eaten clean by wild animals, relatives will brush some "seasoning" on the body and wait a few days to see it.
This is the open burial on the grassland.
This is also a funeral for ordinary people.
If you are a noble, you can be buried.
The burial methods are somewhat different from those in the Central Plains, and there are some taboos.
Now Zhenjin has chosen to be buried openly, and Su Mingzhe respects his wishes.
A team of men and horses were immediately arranged to accompany Zhenjin to take Kublai Khan's body to the wilderness for an open burial.
As the news of Kublai Khan's death spread, the Tatar army, which was still fighting, chose to surrender one after another.
This time, of the 500,000 troops that followed Kublai Khan southward, only 150,000 were elite Tatars, and the other 350,000 were servant armies composed of other ethnic groups.
Among them, about 170,000 to 80,000 died in the battle.
About 112,000 people were captured because of their injuries.
There were about 200,000 people who surrendered with the crowd.
Regarding the surrendered and captured Tatars, Su Mingzhe ordered Yang Guo to carefully screen them and treat them differently in the future.
Some of the more naughty ones who don't want to "eat the emperor's salary" are sent directly to the mines to spend the rest of their lives in the mines.
For those with a docile personality, teach them to speak Chinese and naturalize them.
With the surrender, a series of things were organized and unfolded in an orderly manner.
A few days passed.
After Kublai Khan's public burial was over, Su Mingzhe took the lead and returned to Dadu with real gold, Liu Bingzhong and other civil servants and advisers.
Kublai Khan's death made Su Mingzhe very disappointed.
After all, before this, his imaginary enemy was Kublai Khan.
Now that Kublai Khan is gone, Chabi is no longer popular.